Yep Roc Records2016-12-07T21:29:18Zhttp://www.yeproc.com/feed/atom/WordPresshttp://http://www.yeproc.com/?p=103662016-12-02T16:01:31Z2016-12-01T15:54:15Z2016 was a big year for new Yep Roc releases! To celebrate a great year in music, Yep Roc is offering 25% off ALL 2016 physical titles plus FREE shipping worldwide and guaranteed Christmas delivery […]

]]>2016 was a big year for new Yep Roc releases! To celebrate a great year in music, Yep Roc is offering 25% off ALL 2016 physical titles plus FREE shipping worldwide and guaranteed Christmas delivery on U.S. orders. Sale includes releases from Aoife O’Donovan, Mandolin Orange, Grant-Lee Phillips, Eli Paperboy Reed, The Minus 5, and many more!

And if free shipping and a discount weren’t enough of an incentive, you’ll be automatically entered to win a free 2017 Completist membership!

This limited time offer ends December 12th, so hurry up and get your 25% discount while you can!

]]>Acclaimed singer/songwriter Wesley Stace will release Wesley Stace’s John Wesley Harding on February 24, 2017 via Yep Roc Records. Recorded with The Jayhawks—Gary Louris, Marc Perlman, Tim O’Reagan, and Karen Grotberg—at Flowers Studio in Minneapolis, the album was co-produced by Stace and Gary Louris.

Listen/share the first track “Let’s Evaporate,” written with Chas Cronk from the Strawbs, one of Stace’s favorite bands. The album is now available for pre-order here.

The album features 12 tracks chosen for these sessions by Stace, who says, “I always have a lot of songs, so I listened to every unused song I had, many of them quite recent, and picked 11 that I thought The Jayhawks (or The Wezhawks, as we started to call it) would sound great on. I also included a cover, “Don’t Turn Me Loose,” which is where the idea of our making a record together had originated: I saw them live and thought they’d sound great playing that song, and then I thought: and I should be singing it! And they liked the idea. And we did these twelve songs, and that’s it. Everything we recorded is on the record. No outtakes.”

The second album under his real name, the album’s title was chosen for a myriad of reasons including a) the urge to bring all of his art under one banner, b) Jeff Lynne’s ELO, and c) various cab ride conversations.

]]>http://http://www.yeproc.com/?p=103432016-11-15T18:10:22Z2016-11-15T18:10:22ZThe Felice Brothers will release a limited edition 7-inch vinyl recording of “Country Ham” on December 9 via Yep Roc Records. The holiday-themed single features a live version of “Murder By Mistletoe” – recorded for […]

]]>The Felice Brothers will release a limited edition 7-inch vinyl recording of “Country Ham” on December 9 via Yep Roc Records. The holiday-themed single features a live version of “Murder By Mistletoe” – recorded for Rolling Stone last year in NYC – on the B-side. Both tracks have never before been pressed on vinyl and preorder is available now through The Felice Brothers and Yep Roc stores.

“It’s a narrative about feeling lonely on Christmas, and the different emotions that can go with the holidays that aren’t always talked about in the happy-go-lucky songs,” band front man Ian Felice says.

The artwork for “Country Ham” is a nod to the band’s hometown, which features an original painting by Ian titled Palenville in the Snow.

In related hometown news, The Felice Brothers will play a Nov. 25 show in Woodstock, NY at The Bearsville Theatre before heading overseas in January. The band’s Life In The Dark European tour will include headline shows in Ireland, the UK, Belgium, Germany and more. A full list of tour dates to follow.

The band’s latest full-length release Life In The Dark is available now worldwide. The nine songs featured on the band’s ninth studio album explore modern life in a complicated and divided America, through a cynical and occasionally heartbroken lens, in the tradition of songwriters like John Prine, Shane MacGowan and Michael Hurley.

]]>http://http://www.yeproc.com/?p=103352016-11-11T22:12:48Z2016-11-11T22:12:48ZThe iconic four-piece The Sadies will release their 10th studio album titled Northern Passages on February 10, 2017 (Yep Roc Records) with a pre-order available as of November 4. The Sadies premiered the first single […]

]]>The iconic four-piece The Sadies will release their 10th studio album titled Northern Passages on February 10, 2017 (Yep Roc Records) with a pre-order available as of November 4. The Sadies premiered the first single from the LP today, a haunting, harmony-filled number titled “Riverview Fog” which began as a letter to their friend Rick White, whose contributions, both musical and visual, have helped to shape The Sadies’ story. Listen to “Riverview Fog” via TwangvilleHERE.

The essence of The Sadies’ story can be summed up with the powerful image of the aurora borealis adorning the cover of their latest album, Northern Passages. Ever since the quartet, comprised of singer/guitarists Dallas and Travis Good, bassist Sean Dean and drummer Mike Belitsky, first arrived on the North American scene 20 years ago, their music has never been less than awe-inspiring, with no embellishment necessary.

As the light swirled with each album The Sadies have made, the overall picture took on more defined colours. On top of that is an incredible list of collaborations—Neko Case, R&B legend Andre Williams, The Mekons’ Jon Langford, Jon Spencer, Robyn Hitchcock, John Doe, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Gord Downie, Neil Young—each artist pushing their sound into new, unmapped territory. Eventually, more time was taken in between albums as focus shifted to their original songwriting, and what was once the best live band in Canada became the best band in Canada, period.

Recorded in the basement of Dallas and Travis’ parents’ home north of Toronto over the winter of 2015, the familiar surroundings and lack of distractions resulted in a consistent feel, despite the eclecticism at the heart of The Sadies’ sound. The psych-folk flourishes on tracks such as “Riverview Fog” are no mere homage; this is the sound of our inscrutable world, and how we manage to survive in it.

The Sadies are a band that fans cling to like a closely guarded secret, with each new release fulfilling the promise to reach further, for all of our sakes, not just their own. With Northern Passages, the time has come to make room for more on this wild acid-folk-country-punk trip, and we’ll be better off because of it.

The band will be heading on a Canadian Ontario andEast Coast tour supporting Blue Rodeo kicking off in Toronto on February 2, 2017. See below for all upcoming tour dates.

THE SADIES TOUR DATES

2016

Nov 04 – Sarnia, ON – SWIFF (The South Western International Film Festival)

]]>http://http://www.yeproc.com/?p=103262016-11-10T16:20:13Z2016-11-10T16:20:13ZChuck Prophet describes his new album ‘Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins’ (Feb 10, Yep Roc Records) as a “California Noir,” an album inspired partly by the mysterious death of rocker Bobby Fuller in LA […]

Chuck Prophet describes his new album ‘Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins’ (Feb 10, Yep Roc Records) as a “California Noir,” an album inspired partly by the mysterious death of rocker Bobby Fuller in LA in 1966. “California has always represented the Golden Dream, and it’s the tension between romance and reality that lurks underneath the surface in all noir films and paperbacks, and that connects these songs.” Gritty and jangly, Chuck’s new album features 13 original works that explore doomed love, loneliness and fast-paced violence via Chuck’s muscular songwriting craft. They include songs about Fuller, the death of David Bowie, and the killing of San Francisco security guard Alex Nieto that drew international headlines as “Death By Gentrification.”

‘Bobby Fuller’ finds Chuck coming full circle. He cut the album to tape at Hyde Street Studio in San Francisco, which also happens to be the same studio where Prophet did his very first recording session, while still in high school. Chuck brought out his ’64 Stratocaster for the sessions, conjuring a sound that Jonathan Richman once described as “gasoline in the sand, like a motorcycle at a hot dog stand.” He’s backed by The Mission Express, a band featuring his wife Stephanie Finch (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Kevin White (bass), Vicente Rodriguez (drums, vocals) and James DePrato (guitar).

Lead single “Bad Year For Rock and Roll” is a timely homage to rock greats lost in 2016: “The Thin White Duke took a final bow / there’s one more star in the heavens now/I’m all dressed up in a mohair suit / watching Peter Sellers thinking of you.” “Jesus Was A Social Drinker” starts as a punchy mid-tempo rocker with clanking cowbell before unfurling into an explosive, psychedelic coda. “Alex Nieto” is what Prophet refers to as his first protest song. It’s “an homage to a good man who should still be alive,” says Chuck.

Chuck and The Mission Express will be touring around the release of ‘Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins,’ beginning with select US dates in early January. Touring will continue through Europe in February and North America in the spring. A complete schedule will be announced shortly, with January dates below.

Track listing:
1. Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins
2. Your Skin
3. Open Up Your Heart
4. Coming Out in Code
5. Killing Machine
6. Bad Year For Rock and Roll
7. Jesus Was a Social Drinker
8. In the Mausoleum
9. Rider or the Train
10. If I Was Connie Britton
11. Post-War Cinematic Dead Man Blues
12. We Got Up and Played
13. Alex Nieto

]]>http://http://www.yeproc.com/?p=103172016-12-02T16:00:39Z2016-11-04T15:55:21ZGrammy Award-nominated artist Tift Merritt’s new album Stitch of the World will be released January 27 on Yep Roc Records. Listen to “Love Soldiers On,” the second song from the album here. Preorder Stitch of […]

]]>Grammy Award-nominated artist Tift Merritt’s new album Stitch of the World will be released January 27 on Yep Roc Records. Listen to “Love Soldiers On,” the second song from the album here. Preorder Stitch of The World here.

Stitch of the World, Merritt’s sixth studio album, was written on a friend’s farm in Marfa, Texas, at Merritt’s California cabin and in New York City in the wake of several major changes in her life. Merritt workshopped the songs on Stitch of the World with longtime friend Sam Beam of Iron & Wine after bumping in to him in an airport. The album was recorded in Los Angeles while Merritt was six months pregnant, after which she relocated to her hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina.“Dusty Old Man,” the album’s first single, recently premiered via Rolling Stone Country, who said, “Powered by guitars from Marc Ribot and pedal-steel wiz Eric Heywood over a bouncy shuffle rhythm from drummer Jay Bellerose and bassist Jennifer Condos, ‘Dusty Old Man’ has more of a bluesy, loose-limbed feel than anything Merritt has ever done.” Listenhere.

The time since the release of Traveling Alone has also found Merritt recording and touring with Andrew Bird in his Hands of Glory, MC Taylor’s Hiss Golden Messenger and classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein.

Merritt’s tour this fall will include select dates on Hiss Golden Messenger’s tour as both a special guest, and playing as a member of frontman MC Taylor’s band. Taylor says, “Long before I knew Tift Merritt as a friend, her voice and songs were a constant companion to me all over the world, in times of dark and light. Her songs are real and wide open and deep. Her voice is as heavy as any I’ve ever heard and I’m thankful it exists in this world.” See full list of tour dates below.

TIFT MERRITT LIVERaised in North Carolina, Tift Merritt has released five full-length albums and two live records, including a recent reissue of her debut album Bramble Rose earlier this year. The New Yorker has called Tift Merritt “the bearer of a proud tradition of distaff country soul that reaches back to artists like Dusty Springfield and Bobbie Gentry.” Emmylou Harris calls her a diamond in a coal mine. She has performed with the NY Philharmonic and toured with artists as varied as Iron & Wine, Jason Isbell, Elvis Costello, and Gregg Allman. Her 2004 release Tambourine was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Album as well as three Americana Music Awards. In addition to recent recording and touring with Andrew Bird’s Hands of Glory, MC Taylor’s Hiss Golden Messenger and Simone Dinnerstein, Don Henley covered Merritt’s song “Bramble Rose” to open up his first solo album in fifteen years, Cass County.

*as Special Guest and with Hiss Golden Messenger band
†with Hiss Golden Messenger band

]]>http://http://www.yeproc.com/?p=103142016-10-28T20:04:11Z2016-10-28T20:04:11ZHot off the release of their album Autumn, Chatham County Line premiered a video for one of the new album’s tracks. “Autumn,” Chatham County Line’s seventh album, produced by Dave Wilson released on Yep Roc […]

]]>Hot off the release of their album Autumn, Chatham County Line premiered a video for one of the new album’s tracks.

“Autumn,” Chatham County Line’s seventh album, produced by Dave Wilson released on Yep Roc Records in September, also takes me back to an earlier time when country music on the Opry was just that. And now you can also be transported back with me through this exclusive premiere of the band’s newest video featuring the tune “All That’s Left.” The band’s unique roots-based bluegrass is steeped in tradition but with a twist that can only be described as fun.

]]>http://http://www.yeproc.com/?p=103072016-10-25T17:02:26Z2016-10-25T17:02:26ZBeautifully shot on the Seattle coast and directed by Kris Kristensen, the video for “Smoke and Sparks” premiered at PopMatters. Of the “Smoke and Sparks” video Phillips offers, “This was a song I began writing while still […]

]]>Beautifully shot on the Seattle coast and directed by Kris Kristensen, the video for “Smoke and Sparks” premiered at PopMatters.

Of the “Smoke and Sparks” video Phillips offers, “This was a song I began writing while still in LA, at least in terms of the music and what would eventually become the title. The words, smoke and sparks, suggested transcendence and possibly mortality. It was a lyric I would avoid for many months. Later that year, soon after my family and I arrived in Tennessee, my dad’s health began to spiral. At his side, I witnessed his acceptance and grace in the throes of cancer. Back at my family home, I woke up one night and finished the song. My dad passed away the following morning. Often it seems like a song is trying to speak to me – well before there are any words. My job is to listen.”

]]>http://http://www.yeproc.com/?p=102952016-10-14T20:43:30Z2016-10-14T20:43:30ZThe Felice Brothers were invited to the JITV HQ in Los Angeles to play a few songs from Life in The Dark… in a van. Watch all three videos below. Life in The Dark is out […]

]]>http://http://www.yeproc.com/?p=102932016-10-21T19:58:30Z2016-10-14T19:22:46ZThe boys in Jeremy & The Harlequins put together an “Inspiration” Spotify playlist, and you can get entered to win a pretty snazzy prize package just by entering and listening to it. You could win […]